Irving Bacheller

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“A story of the youth and early manhood of Lincoln. Opening in Vermont In 1831, the story carries a typical pioneer family across the country to Illinois, the land of plenty. The Traylors settle In New Salem where they meet the lean, gaunt youth known as Abe Lincoln. They become friends and the friendship stands the test of shared joys and sorrows in the primitive frontier community. The conditions of the time are pictured and the growth of the anti-slavery sentiment, although the narrative, ending with Lincoln’s departure to take his seat in congress in 1847, does not take in the active conflict. The “underground railroad” too has a part in the story. A concluding chapter in the form of a memoir sketches the later years of Lincoln’s life.” “The Abraham Lincoln of Irving Bacheller’s new novel is not the half legendary figure of popular imagination or even of some biographers. It is a re-creation of Lincoln, the fellow human being.” – The Book Review Digest

Lincoln is the single most compelling figure in our history, but also one of the most enigmatic. Was he the Great Emancipator, a man of deep convictions who ended slavery in the United States, or simply a reluctant politician compelled by the force of events to free the slaves? In Father Abraham , Richard Striner offers a fresh portrait of Lincoln, one that helps us make sense of his many contradictions. Striner shows first that, if you examine the speeches that Lincoln made in the 1850s, you will have no doubt of his passion to end slavery. These speeches illuminate the anger, vehemence, and sheer brilliance of candidate Lincoln, who worked up crowds with charismatic fervor as he gathered a national following. But if he felt so passionately about abolition, why did he wait so long to release the Emancipation Proclamation? As Striner points out, politics is the art of the possible, and Lincoln was a consummate politician, a shrewd manipulator who cloaked his visionary ethics in the more pragmatic garb of the coalition-builder. He was at bottom a Machiavellian prince for a democratic age. When secession began, Lincoln used the battle cry of saving the Union to build a power base, one that would eventually break the slave-holding states forever. Striner argues that Lincoln was a rare man indeed: a fervent idealist and a crafty politician with a remarkable gift for strategy. It was the harmonious blend of these two qualities, Striner concludes, that made Lincoln's role in ending slavery so fundamental. Father Abraham challenges recent portraits of Lincoln as an essentially passive politician and reluctant abolitionist.

Dickens, C. A Christmas carol. Sangster, M. E. The Christmas babe. Corning, Mrs. W. H. A western Christmas. Bacheller, I. Joe's search for Santa Claus. Schayer, J. Angela's Christmas. The first Puritan Christmas tree. Butterworth, H. First New England Christmas. Dickens, C. The chimes. Redmond, C. Billy's Santa Claus experience. Stowe, Mrs. H. B. Christmas in Poganuc. Molesworth, Mrs. The Christmas princess. Widow Townsend's visitor. Wilcox, E. W. The old man's Christmas. Dickens, C. The Christmas goblin. Mead, C. H. The song of the star. Collingwood, H. W. Indian Pete's Christmas gift. My Christmas dinner. Dickens, C. The poor traveler. The legend of the Christmas tree. Ewing, J. H. The peace egg.

Lincoln’s biographer Albert J. Beveridge reviewed this book and said , “This brilliant volume answers the general demand for a true and engaging description of Lincoln as a fellow human. It is just this that we must know if we are to comprehend why he was able to do the mighty work he accomplished, and why we who live today are so attracted to him. For the source of Lincoln’s power, and the basic reason for the amazing vitality of his influence are to be found in the manner of man he was.” – Review in NY Times 1919.

Set in the Adirondacks of New York, the book told the sad story of the wilderness itself - to show, from the woodsman's viewpoint, the play of great forces which were tearing down his home and turning it into the flesh and bone of cities. Were it to cause any reader to value what remains of the forest above its market price and to do his part in checking the greed of the saws, it would be worth while.--Foreword.

Award-winning author Tim Lebbon takes fantasy to new heights in his thrilling new epic as unlikely allies struggle to keep the light of hope burning against a tide of unending darkness...Noreela teeters on the brink of destruction, but at its center pulses a magic grown stroner than ever before. Now the Mages have raised an army of terrifying warriorsand unstoppable war machins. Their goal: the annihilation of all Noreela through a reign of bloodhsed and death unlike any ever imagined.But Noreela's last survivors will not go quietyly into the never-ending darkness. One man will lead a desperate band of rebels, including a witch, a fledge miner, and a dreaming librarian. For an ancient prophecy predicts that the future of magic will emerge in a child still unborn--if only our heroes can stay alive until dawn.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Aunt Nell George A. Birmingham The Cat and Cupid Arnold Bennett Chu-Bu and Sheemish Lord Dunsany The District Doctor Ivan Turgenev The Eagle's Nest Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson The Indigent Brahman Lal Behari Dey The Missing Mortgagee R. Austin Freeman Oliver Twist, Chapter IX Charles Dickens The Pawnshop Keeper Margery Verner Reed A Respectable Woman Kate Chopin A Retrieved Reformation O. Henry The Slaughter of an Ox at Sea Pierre Loti The Survivors Elsie Singmaster The Sword of Welleran Lord Dunsany The Undertaker's Chat Mark Twain Up the Slide Jack London The Upturned Face Stephen Crane War Jack London The Weight Of Obligation Rex Beach When Lincoln Licked A Bully Irving Bacheller